This rock avalanche was triggered by a major earthquake on July 10, 1949. It destroyed the village of Khait, leading to the death of hundreds, maybe thousands of people. The same earthquake also triggered many loess landslides in the Yasman Valley (central backgound), coalescing to a catastrophic loess flow.

Keywords

aerial view, cultural landscape, debris avalanche, fluvial erosion, fluvial processes, lake, landslide, mountainscape, rock avalanche, steppes and cold deserts, Zonobiome VII

Created

Thursday 10 September 2009 by Martin Mergili in Asia / Tajikistan (7727 visits)